Shop and support Världens Barn
On Saturday, October 5, all daily cash registers from Erikshjälpen Second Hand's stores will go to Radiohjälpen's fundraising campaign "Världens Barn". The project that we highlight in this year's campaign is about how portable schools in Bangladesh ensure that children can continue to go to school despite poverty and climate disasters.
Erikshjälpen is contributing to the Världens Barn campaign for the 27th year and has been involved since the start. Last year, the second-hand shops sold for an unimaginable 3,703,294 Swedish kronor (SEK). In addition to donating the daily takings, many of Erikshjälpen Second Hand's 52 shops draw attention to Världens Barn through various activities.
-"In our stores there is always a great commitment to children," says Jerker Sandell, Executive Director of Erikshjälpen Second Hand. "The Världens Barn campaign gives us the opportunity to do even more for children around the world.
The World's Children campaign gives us the opportunity to do even more for children around the world.
Children of the World
Världens Barn, Sweden's largest fundraising campaign for children's right to health, school and security, is carried out in a unique collaboration with Swedish Television, Swedish Radio P4, Erikshjälpen and 13 other aid organizations. Every year, Radiohjälpen grants funds to around thirty projects in as many countries. All organisations involved in the campaign highlight a special project each year.
- Around the world, many millions of children live in insecurity due to war and disasters. Our knowledge, willingness and ability to help them affects the future development more than anything else and defines who we are, says Mattias Ingeson, Erikshjälpen's Secretary-General and Chairman of the Board of the Swedish National Fund for Children.
Mim and her friends are playing in the schoolyard.
Mim and her friends are playing in the schoolyard.
Erikshjälp's focus this year - portable schools
Mim, her parents and five siblings live on one of the many sand islands in the Brahmaputra river delta in Bangladesh. Floods, cyclones and other natural disasters strike the area several times a year, causing great devastation. Landslides and soil erosion make it difficult to build roads and schools. But thanks to the portable school, which Erikshjälpen has established together with its local partner Friendship, children in the area have the opportunity to go to school. Mim and her friends have learned about their rights and how to build up preparedness to cope with natural disasters.
Shop for the world's children
Visit one of our second-hand shops on Saturday, October 5 and shop for the children of the world.
Published: 03 October 2024
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